Research: Abstract of the Napoleonic Era


Government Finances.
France:  Money Spent on Imperial Palaces and Edifices: 1804 - 1813

Note: All monies are in Francs.

Name of Project

Estimated Expenses
Sums Spent 1804 - 1813
The Louvre and Musée Napoleon
14,000,000
11,100,000
The Napoleon Gallery and Church
36,000,000
10,300,000
The Tuileries
6,700,000
6,700,000
Triumphal Arch in the Carrousel
1,400,000
1,400,000
The Palae of the King of Rome
30,000,000
2,500,000
Versailles
6,600,000
5,200,000
Water Machinery at Marly
3,000,000
2,450,000
Fontainebleu
6,242,000
6,242,000
Compiègne
4,366,000
4,366,000
Total For Projects
108,308,000
50,258,000
Improvements at Saint Cloud, Rambouillet, Trianon, etc.
11,796.583
Total
62,054,583

 

Source:

Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de. Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. 4 New York : Charles Scribner's Sons; 1895. P. 444



 

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